He retired Friday, but won't be out of work for long. He will now serve full-time as a death investigator at the Fairfield County Coroner’s office.

He will retire a sergeant, after being promoted on June 5, 2017.

According to Remington, he will start with the county on March 31 with no set plan on how long he’ll be there. He is an American board-certified forensic death investigator and brings years of investigative law enforcement experience and paramedic experience to the coroner’s office.

As the death investigator, Remington will respond to the death scene and assist the coroner to determine the cause of death.

“I had a total knee replacement in December and once they replaced the knee, they told me that I could not be able to run or jump,” Remington said. “So I no longer met the physical qualifications to do the job.”

Remington is 56 years old and feels he is a little young to fully retire. His wife is a registered nurse. He says he needs to keep moving and keep doing things and working for the coroner is right in his wheelhouse.

“One of my best friends is chief forensic death investigator for the county, Ed Breining,” Remington said. “And Ed needed some help … and I started working with him part-time.”

Remington was hired by the city on Jan. 18, 1993 and moved to Lancaster from Tacoma, Wash. in 1991 to be closer to his family. According to Chief of Police Adam Pillar, Remington served the community through D.A.R.E. program and the (Community Services Unit). He even taught D.A.R.E. at Rushville Middle School on his own time.

Remington served in the Detective Bureau, the property room, and patrol division; both as an officer and supervisor. He was awarded the Brett Markwood Award in 2003 and again nominated in 2007.

Along with being a police officer, Remington served almost ten years in the military-combined in the Army and Navy.

Remington said he didn’t have an initial interest to become an officer. He took the exam after being out of the military for a couple of years and graduated the academy on April 23, 1993. He discovered how much he wanted to be an officer after starting his job.

After being persuaded to speak at his celebration on Friday, at the Lancaster Police Department, Remington emotionally closed with: “It’s been a great ride.”

Pillar said, Remington was a great officer and friend and had a pleasure working with him. “Serving is part of who he (Remington) is, he’s built that way,” Pillar said. “Always been that way.”